«“Espiritualismo at the U.S.-Mexican Border Region seeks to confirm the existence of a dimension that supports the reality of immateriality that is beyond the usual dimensions associated with human life. Rodolfo A. Otero takes us to the U.S.-Mexico border region—a region fraught with inequalities of multiple sorts and of intense and dynamic linguistic, cultural, economic, and social changes—to provide us with a firsthand, finely tuned, ethnographic narrative and analysis of the manner in which transborder peoples resurrect and participate in Espiritualismo temples in order to contend with these circumstances. Class jumps, ethnic and cultural shifts, grave economic disparities, and linguistic experimentation lead parts of the population to inquire and join with others, like and unlike themselves, in concert to gain a kind of identity resource that buttresses these constant demands on their many selves that negotiates the daily stress of such an environment. Transborder living accentuates these dynamics, and in a kind of ethnogenesis, the espiritualistas enter into realms of immateriality through possession to deal with their material reality. This is indeed crossing borders of many sorts, and this fine work takes us there in the long tradition of exemplary anthropological analysis and presentation.” —Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez, Regents’ Professor, School of Transborder Studies and Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University»